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r I A R ION
900 Bethel DriveW^ I ^^^^ i UWL. ' VL B ^ M
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Bethel College
St. Paul, Minnesota
Sexual harassment policy sparks fireworks
After a dizzying round of presentations
before college and seminaray faculty,
staff and students, the Sexual Harassment
task force sub-committee, the primary
shapers of Bethel College and Seminary's
new sexual harassment policy, retired
behind closed doors. They sifted through
suggestions and objections to the policy
that rose in the hearings and rewrote,
reworded and clarified the document,
completing an eighth draft of the new
policy. Yesterday the eighth revision was
presented to college faculty, and after the
sub-committee makes further amendments to solidify the language in the policy, it will pass to the Board of Regents for
a final revision and vote for approval.
Although only the Regents must approve
the sexual harassment policy, the task
force sought faculty, staff and student
response to the new policy because, "we
want them to be invested in it; we know
they have specific interests involved,"
said sub-committee member Dr. Jim
Koch. Sub-committee member Carol
Pass added, "It's (the sexual harassment
policy) not going to be effective if people
don't understand it and can't value what it
does. The confidence the students have
will reflect in the confidence the faculty
has."
The sexual harassment policy was heard
by faculty, staff and students at the semi
nary and Student Senate at the college in
a series of meetings ranging from a formal
presentation to the faculty on December
16, to informal hearings with staff and students as recently as January 15. While the
hearings were long and sometimes tiresome, sub-committee member Nina Fish-
wick said, "The hearings helped us find
things we felt strongly about and helped
us reword things that needed change."
"It's a better policy because of the input,"
said Pass.
In a letter dated January 8, Asst. Professor
of English Dan Ritchie (principal author of
the letter) and ten college and seminary
male faculty members offered vigorous
opposition to the policy as presented on
December 16. The professors stated that
the policy infringed on academic freedom, pinched Christian ministry and
squashed due process of law. Further, the
professors feared that the "subjective
language" of the policy sought to advance "feminist agenda" and that the
"subjective language" would convert "virtually every friendship into a possible lawsuit, virtually every comment into a potential charge."
The intent of the sexual harassment policy
is to protect every person on the campus,
faculty, students and staff, from sexual
harassment and to attempt reconciliation
without using civil law. For the policy to be
Broomball bashes Bethel
by Holly Wenzel
Oof! Ouch! Broomball time is here again,
and Bethelites are skidding and sliding all
over ice rinks in pursuit of a small orange
ball. Some folks take to helmets and
facemasks to protect against all those
sawn-off broomsticks flailing about, but
most simply wear kneepads and enough
layers of clothing to ward off cold, impede movement and probably deflect
bullets on some of those 20-below
nights.
Thisyear, 42 teams are playing, with six to
a division. Five of these divisions are B-
league and two are the more competitive
A-league. Vonda Bjorklund, intramural
director, says, "1 would call it our most
popular intramural sport," and guesses
that there are between 420 and 500 students and staff members playing. She
says more than numbers tell her broomball has a dedicated following. "For one
thing, we never have to worry about forfeits. Occasionally there is one, but there's
a love for this crazy sport like none of the
others. People are crazy. They're willing
to shovel a foot of snow off the rink just so
they can play their game."
It's a pretty simple game, really. There are
eight players on a side: four women and
four men. One person is the goalie in a
small metal net, three are defensive players not allowed to cross the blue line at
center ice, and four are offensive players.
Officials at each game see that there is no
high-sticking.
However, some thought does go into the
sport. Dave Nelson and Ozzie Larson,
players on the defending champion
"Major Leaguers," recommend "Strate
gy, more or less—keep the passing lanes
open, spread out on offense, keep the
defense informed about where the ball
is." Their team formed four years ago,
when they were freshmen, and plunged
right into the challenging A league.
"None of us had ever played before, but
we decided we'd better get right in there
and I think it's made us better," says Larson. In four years the Major Leaguers
have only lost three games in regular season play.
Jeff Hickman, here on consortium from St.
Olaf, doesn't think much of strategy for
the B-league team he plays on. "Most
people don't have the talent to carry out
what some people think the strategy
should be. There's a difference between
strategy and certain things you should
keep in mind, like keeping your team
spread out."
The age of hi-tech makes for better
broomball, at least for one B-league team,
"The Jerks." Captain Tom Tollefeon says,
"We borrow John Zupfer's dad's video-
camera to tape the game. We take the
tape home and kind of study the game so
we can do better." He explains, "It's partially for fun, but also to see who's in good
position and who's not. We lost our first
game, but we won the next two. I think
the videotape has something to do with
it. Everyone can see where they're supposed to be. The girls do a good job of
staying in the right position but the guys
need some help, so we're working on
that."
How the girls fare in a contact sport
against guys is the topic at Saturday
morning brunch, where Saga provides an
opportunity for broomballers to do a little
effective Pass suggests that the policy's
provisions must be the contemporary of
the Supreme Court's sexual harassment
rulings. Without a clause stating that sexual harassment can occur on the "campus
environment" "it wouldn't hold up in
court as a document that protects the
student," said Pass.
Koch said the same clause also serves as
protection for the professor. If a charge of
sexual harassment is brought against a
professor by a student and through grievance proceedings the charge is found
frivolous or malicious, then the professor
could be cleared. If the student proceeds
to file suit against the professor in civil
court, the professor, having been cleared
once by a policy that includes environment as a place of possible harassment,
will have the full support of the college
and full support of Supreme Court precedent. "I take great comfort in that," said
Koch.
However, the completed eighth draft
reflects a change in wording from "campus environment" to "learning and living
environment." The intent of the wording
remains the same. Pass said that the court
now recognizes that sexual harassment
takes place outside of the classroom or
office (see related article, page 3). "It
used to be that if you didn't physically
fight your way out of the boss's closet
See page 3
Dr. David H. Brandt, the Provost Search Committee's candidate was on campus earlier this week to meet
college faculty. Dr. Brandt holds a PhD from Oklahoma University and served as vice President and Dean of
Messiah College in Crantam, Pennsylvania for II years. Photo by Paul Gunnarson
Monday-morning quarterbacking after
the morning's games. On the whole,
David Dockter and Mark Dalton seem
impressed by the women. Dockter admits, "There are some that you're surprised by." "Thatyou're slammed into the
boards by," adds Dalton. Dockter continues, "Some seem fairly timid and then
they catch you with the ball up against the
boards and holy cow! I think they know
the guys aren't going to retaliate."
Lisa Harms agrees. "I think sometimes
the girls take advantage of the guys
because they know the guys aren't going
to knock them around." Karla Roesler
thinks perhaps this isn't all bad. "Sometimes I get the impression that they don't
give the girls enough credit. They don't
think we can play that well."
This year a rather strange competi ti on has
sprung up in an already competitive
sport. When the team "Studmuffins"
signed up in the l.M. office, they realized
they had too many players for one team
and split into Studmuffins I and II. Bjorklund put them into the same division to
see how the two teams would do playing
one another. Dockter reports, "We lost to
ourselves. It ended up that we just
swapped teams. Studmuffins I didn't
have enough girls so we gave them some
and they gave us some guys—it was kind
of like gradeschool, picking teams. The
winner was pretty much which side had
the majority of the original people."
So, what does make the difference between "Ball Blasters" and mere "Slop-
whoppers?" Where is the dividing line
between the "Bold Competitors" and
"The Jerks?" This year there are certainly
some winners in the name game. "Constituent Crushers" shows the political (or
anti-political?) bent of its team members.
"Sigma Zetans," according to Dalton,
have high application standards like the
honor society and accept people from
"biology, chemistry, physics, math ...well,
anybody who wants to show up." Most of
the names that are left ooze bloody-
minded antagonism even on paper.
"Effective Force," "Biff and the Destroyers," "Krunch Bunch," "Assault and Battery," and the "Outlaws" are now roaming the peaceful Bethel campus, believe it
or not. So are "Stray Cats," "Second Floor
Stallions," and "Urban Blockheads."
See page 5

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II
r I A R ION
900 Bethel DriveW^ I ^^^^ i UWL. ' VL B ^ M
22yanua/y/9Sc?
Bethel College
St. Paul, Minnesota
Sexual harassment policy sparks fireworks
After a dizzying round of presentations
before college and seminaray faculty,
staff and students, the Sexual Harassment
task force sub-committee, the primary
shapers of Bethel College and Seminary's
new sexual harassment policy, retired
behind closed doors. They sifted through
suggestions and objections to the policy
that rose in the hearings and rewrote,
reworded and clarified the document,
completing an eighth draft of the new
policy. Yesterday the eighth revision was
presented to college faculty, and after the
sub-committee makes further amendments to solidify the language in the policy, it will pass to the Board of Regents for
a final revision and vote for approval.
Although only the Regents must approve
the sexual harassment policy, the task
force sought faculty, staff and student
response to the new policy because, "we
want them to be invested in it; we know
they have specific interests involved,"
said sub-committee member Dr. Jim
Koch. Sub-committee member Carol
Pass added, "It's (the sexual harassment
policy) not going to be effective if people
don't understand it and can't value what it
does. The confidence the students have
will reflect in the confidence the faculty
has."
The sexual harassment policy was heard
by faculty, staff and students at the semi
nary and Student Senate at the college in
a series of meetings ranging from a formal
presentation to the faculty on December
16, to informal hearings with staff and students as recently as January 15. While the
hearings were long and sometimes tiresome, sub-committee member Nina Fish-
wick said, "The hearings helped us find
things we felt strongly about and helped
us reword things that needed change."
"It's a better policy because of the input,"
said Pass.
In a letter dated January 8, Asst. Professor
of English Dan Ritchie (principal author of
the letter) and ten college and seminary
male faculty members offered vigorous
opposition to the policy as presented on
December 16. The professors stated that
the policy infringed on academic freedom, pinched Christian ministry and
squashed due process of law. Further, the
professors feared that the "subjective
language" of the policy sought to advance "feminist agenda" and that the
"subjective language" would convert "virtually every friendship into a possible lawsuit, virtually every comment into a potential charge."
The intent of the sexual harassment policy
is to protect every person on the campus,
faculty, students and staff, from sexual
harassment and to attempt reconciliation
without using civil law. For the policy to be
Broomball bashes Bethel
by Holly Wenzel
Oof! Ouch! Broomball time is here again,
and Bethelites are skidding and sliding all
over ice rinks in pursuit of a small orange
ball. Some folks take to helmets and
facemasks to protect against all those
sawn-off broomsticks flailing about, but
most simply wear kneepads and enough
layers of clothing to ward off cold, impede movement and probably deflect
bullets on some of those 20-below
nights.
Thisyear, 42 teams are playing, with six to
a division. Five of these divisions are B-
league and two are the more competitive
A-league. Vonda Bjorklund, intramural
director, says, "1 would call it our most
popular intramural sport," and guesses
that there are between 420 and 500 students and staff members playing. She
says more than numbers tell her broomball has a dedicated following. "For one
thing, we never have to worry about forfeits. Occasionally there is one, but there's
a love for this crazy sport like none of the
others. People are crazy. They're willing
to shovel a foot of snow off the rink just so
they can play their game."
It's a pretty simple game, really. There are
eight players on a side: four women and
four men. One person is the goalie in a
small metal net, three are defensive players not allowed to cross the blue line at
center ice, and four are offensive players.
Officials at each game see that there is no
high-sticking.
However, some thought does go into the
sport. Dave Nelson and Ozzie Larson,
players on the defending champion
"Major Leaguers," recommend "Strate
gy, more or less—keep the passing lanes
open, spread out on offense, keep the
defense informed about where the ball
is." Their team formed four years ago,
when they were freshmen, and plunged
right into the challenging A league.
"None of us had ever played before, but
we decided we'd better get right in there
and I think it's made us better," says Larson. In four years the Major Leaguers
have only lost three games in regular season play.
Jeff Hickman, here on consortium from St.
Olaf, doesn't think much of strategy for
the B-league team he plays on. "Most
people don't have the talent to carry out
what some people think the strategy
should be. There's a difference between
strategy and certain things you should
keep in mind, like keeping your team
spread out."
The age of hi-tech makes for better
broomball, at least for one B-league team,
"The Jerks." Captain Tom Tollefeon says,
"We borrow John Zupfer's dad's video-
camera to tape the game. We take the
tape home and kind of study the game so
we can do better." He explains, "It's partially for fun, but also to see who's in good
position and who's not. We lost our first
game, but we won the next two. I think
the videotape has something to do with
it. Everyone can see where they're supposed to be. The girls do a good job of
staying in the right position but the guys
need some help, so we're working on
that."
How the girls fare in a contact sport
against guys is the topic at Saturday
morning brunch, where Saga provides an
opportunity for broomballers to do a little
effective Pass suggests that the policy's
provisions must be the contemporary of
the Supreme Court's sexual harassment
rulings. Without a clause stating that sexual harassment can occur on the "campus
environment" "it wouldn't hold up in
court as a document that protects the
student," said Pass.
Koch said the same clause also serves as
protection for the professor. If a charge of
sexual harassment is brought against a
professor by a student and through grievance proceedings the charge is found
frivolous or malicious, then the professor
could be cleared. If the student proceeds
to file suit against the professor in civil
court, the professor, having been cleared
once by a policy that includes environment as a place of possible harassment,
will have the full support of the college
and full support of Supreme Court precedent. "I take great comfort in that," said
Koch.
However, the completed eighth draft
reflects a change in wording from "campus environment" to "learning and living
environment." The intent of the wording
remains the same. Pass said that the court
now recognizes that sexual harassment
takes place outside of the classroom or
office (see related article, page 3). "It
used to be that if you didn't physically
fight your way out of the boss's closet
See page 3
Dr. David H. Brandt, the Provost Search Committee's candidate was on campus earlier this week to meet
college faculty. Dr. Brandt holds a PhD from Oklahoma University and served as vice President and Dean of
Messiah College in Crantam, Pennsylvania for II years. Photo by Paul Gunnarson
Monday-morning quarterbacking after
the morning's games. On the whole,
David Dockter and Mark Dalton seem
impressed by the women. Dockter admits, "There are some that you're surprised by." "Thatyou're slammed into the
boards by," adds Dalton. Dockter continues, "Some seem fairly timid and then
they catch you with the ball up against the
boards and holy cow! I think they know
the guys aren't going to retaliate."
Lisa Harms agrees. "I think sometimes
the girls take advantage of the guys
because they know the guys aren't going
to knock them around." Karla Roesler
thinks perhaps this isn't all bad. "Sometimes I get the impression that they don't
give the girls enough credit. They don't
think we can play that well."
This year a rather strange competi ti on has
sprung up in an already competitive
sport. When the team "Studmuffins"
signed up in the l.M. office, they realized
they had too many players for one team
and split into Studmuffins I and II. Bjorklund put them into the same division to
see how the two teams would do playing
one another. Dockter reports, "We lost to
ourselves. It ended up that we just
swapped teams. Studmuffins I didn't
have enough girls so we gave them some
and they gave us some guys—it was kind
of like gradeschool, picking teams. The
winner was pretty much which side had
the majority of the original people."
So, what does make the difference between "Ball Blasters" and mere "Slop-
whoppers?" Where is the dividing line
between the "Bold Competitors" and
"The Jerks?" This year there are certainly
some winners in the name game. "Constituent Crushers" shows the political (or
anti-political?) bent of its team members.
"Sigma Zetans," according to Dalton,
have high application standards like the
honor society and accept people from
"biology, chemistry, physics, math ...well,
anybody who wants to show up." Most of
the names that are left ooze bloody-
minded antagonism even on paper.
"Effective Force," "Biff and the Destroyers," "Krunch Bunch," "Assault and Battery," and the "Outlaws" are now roaming the peaceful Bethel campus, believe it
or not. So are "Stray Cats," "Second Floor
Stallions," and "Urban Blockheads."
See page 5